Table 1 Descriptive information about the employed datasets
From: Towards more realistic measures of accessibility to emergency departments in Sweden
Dataset | Source | Description | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Population data | Telia | Population data based on mobile phone locations compiled on an hour-to-hour basis, aggregated to grid cells | Polygon (point) | 2019–2020 |
Statistics Sweden | Population data based on place of residence aggregated to Statistics Sweden’s grid cells | Polygon (point) | 2019 | |
Road network | The Swedish Transport Administration | Sweden's national road network database, containing all official roads in Sweden | Polyline | 2018 |
Emergency Departments | Manually extracted | Active emergency departments located in hospitals containing two or more specialist competences and the type of hospital | Point | 2022 |
Urban–rural categorization | Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR) | A system of classifying municipalities as containing; large cities; towns or municipalities close to large cities and rural | – | 2017 |